心，能不能摆脱过去，摆脱意念？不是摆脱善念或摆脱恶念，而是从意念枷锁中彻底解脱。我该如何找到答案？唯有看清楚我的内心充塞着什么。如果我的心塞满了善念或恶念，这说明我只是斤斤计较以往，我的心塞满了过去，没有从过去解脱。所以，要紧的是发现内心是如何塞满的。只要心是满的，那么一定是被过去所充塞，因为所有的意识都是过去。过去并不仅仅浮在意识表层，而且还潜伏于最深层，潜意识里的紧张也是过去。
那么，心能不能从淤塞状态中解脱出来？换句话讲，心能不能彻底清空，让过去的记忆、善念、恶念全部放飞，不加拣择？一旦心被意念充塞，无论是善念或恶念，那就是纠结于过去。如果你真正用心聆听，不仅仅听字句，而是真正聆听字句背后的深意，那么你会发现，有一种定境，非思维心可得，那就是摆脱过去的心灵自由。
但，我们没法抛弃过去。当过去渐行渐远，我们可以观照其远去，而不被过去所充塞。所以，心可自由观照而不拣择。记忆的河流在流淌，一旦心生拣择，则必生淤塞；一旦心生淤塞，则被过去所桎梏；一旦心被过去所占领，就看不见真实、纯正、崭新、独创、无染的本然。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Freedom from Occupation
Can the mind be free from the past, free from thought—not from the good or bad thought? How do I find out? I can only find out by seeing what the mind is occupied with. If my mind is occupied with the good or occupied with the bad, then it is only concerned with the past, it is occupied with the past. It is not free of the past. So, what is important is to find out how the mind is occupied. If it is occupied at all, it is always occupied with the past because all our consciousness is the past. The past is not only on the surface but on the highest level, and the stress on the unconscious is also the past….
Can the mind be free from occupation? This means—can the mind be completely without being occupied and let memory, the thoughts good and bad, go by without choosing? The moment the mind is occupied with one thought, good or bad, then it is concerned with the past…. If you really listen—not just merely verbally, but really profoundly—then you will see that there is stability that is not of the mind, that is the freedom from the past.
Yet, the past can never be put aside. There is a watching of the past as it goes by, but not occupation with the past. So the mind is free to observe and not to choose. Where there is choice in this movement of the river of memory, there is occupation; and the moment the mind is occupied, it is caught in the past; and when the mind is occupied with the past, it is incapable of seeing something real, true, new, original, uncontaminated.
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